On the 20th February, 2015 Act No. III of 2015 was published making various amendments to the PMLA (Cap. 373 of the Laws of Malta) (as well as, to a lesser extent, to the Criminal Code and to the Professional Secrecy Act).

Over 150 years ago, the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote how the human mind can convince itself that committing a crime can be somehow justified by the ‘good’ that such actions can bring to society in general.